- Rick Trainor
Richard Hughes "Rick" Trainor FKC (born 1948) is
Professor ofSocial History and the current Principal ofKing's College London (since September 2004).Trainor holds degrees from
Brown University (BA),Princeton University (MA) and theUniversity of Oxford (D.Phil.), where he wrote his 1981 D.Phil. thesis on "Authority and social structure in an industrialized area: a study of three Black Country towns, 1840-1890". He is currently the President ofUniversities UK and a formerRhodes Scholar .He is a member of the Academy of the Social Sciences, Fellow of the
Royal Historical Society and a member of theAthenaeum Club . He is also an Honorary Fellow ofMerton College, Oxford andTrinity College of Music , and a member of the Anglo-AmericanFulbright Commission .Trainor was formerly
Vice-Chancellor of theUniversity of Greenwich (from 2000) and, before that, Senior Vice-Principal of theUniversity of Glasgow .He is married to Dr Marguerite Dupree, an academic historian of medicine currently at
Glasgow University , with two children, Richard and Meg.Published Works
* "Black Country élites: the exercise of authority in an industrialized area, 1830-1900." Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.
* "Urban governance: Britain and beyond since 1750," edited by Robert J. Morris and Richard H. Trainor. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000.
* "University, city and state: the University of Glasgow since 1870," by Michael Moss, J. Forbes Munro and Richard H. Trainor. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the University of Glasgow, 2000.External links
* [http://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/structure/principal/trainor.html KCL information]
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